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All participants of this community must adhere to the global Snapzu community rules and etiquette below in order to keep this tribe orderly, respectful, and friendly. Breaking any of these rules may result in a ban from this tribe, or the suspension of your account as a whole.

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[Update] 10,000 invite requests in 18 hours

We have now topped 10,000 invite requests in the last 18 hours as well as thousands of additional users who joined us by using invite codes provided by members of our community. Of course it would be server suicide to serve all invite requests at once so we have decided to considerably reduce our daily out going invite emails. Sharing invites will remain unaffected by this change, so you can still use your invites or your tribe's invites to get people onto our platform.

To all of those who received an invite code in the mail, or joined through an invite code that someone shared, we welcome you with open arms! We are excited to have you all and hope we live up to whats expected of this already amazing community.

I'm one of those users who doesn't care about the drama. The FPH drama annoyed me, but it didn't linger too long. I have no opinion per se on reddit's CEO, although I find distasteful how she gets targeted for her race and gender.

That being said, the subreddits going black really worries me. I see it as a company who isn't supporting its mods enough. I see it as utterly amateur. And it reminds me of how much I'm tired of drama constantly interfering with my reading enjoyment.

I'm as surprised as you are that reddit is imploding right now. But I can see the writing on the wall. One look at this site's slick interface and ultra-friendly and respectful community, and that was it for me!

I didn't care for the drama much either, but the site has become so inundated with it that now I only use reddit for smaller niche subs that Snapzu isn't really big enough to have yet. I really, really, like Snapzu. It's community is great. The layout is great. The interface is great. The site actually encourages you to actually participate.

I really didn't care about the specifics of any drama - I just cared about how much drama was there. It seems like there was just something going on every single day that was making the entire userbase upset. Since I was on there all the time, it just really got to me. I started looking elsewhere to find a calmer place; somewhere without incessant shouting and crying, a place that just wanted to talk.

I was thinking about this the other day. I assumed Reddit would be going strong for at least 20+ years and I couldn't imagine what possibly could lead it to its downfall. Never imagined this would happen, especially this soon.

Even if Reddit doesn't completely fall apart and there isn't a huge migration to other sites like Snapzu, I fully intend to stick around here. I see a lot of promise in a site like this and in due time I can Snap having their smaller niche communities.

To be honest, the smaller subreddits are the better ones anyway. Sure, it's fun to browse AskReddit and see what a lot of people are writing, but for any sort of serious discussion I found the smaller forums much nicer and more helpful. The more members a community has, the higher is the amount of trolls and spammers as well.

So even if Snapzu stays smaller, maybe even significantly smaller than Reddit, it might have a nicer community altogether.

Doing a lot of things right, though.
For instance, /t/football is the one dedicated to kicking a ball with your feet, while /t/nfl is the one for American Kevlar-Rugby.
Also, if you build it, they will come. Surely.

Voat's not too great because of the fact that it got attention from the /r/FatPeopleHate banning and not from the Chooting, so the attention (and therefore current demographic) over there isn't what it needs. Also it's too similar to reddit right now, Snapzu does enough differently to where I think it's worthwhile (personally)

Same for me. I think I'll make Snapzu my home, and just subscribe to a few small subs back on reddit.

For me, the gems of reddit are the local subreddits... I travel a lot and end up staying in places for months at a time, and some of the nicer people I've met on the Internet were on country-specific of city-specific subs. I guess Snapzu doesn't have the critical mass for these just yet, but I'm willing to stick with a very specific list of subreddits until that happens.

Pretty much why I said no to voat, along with the fact that its a complete clone of reddit and is probably gonna go down the same road. Get the vibe people going there didn't bother to look at other sites.

I think Voat was made with complete, uncensored speech in mind, making it a haven for the more controversial subreddits that have been banned. I'd be perfectly fine with that sort of thing staying over there, while Snapzu keeps to a cleaner, friendlier community. In fact, that's my one non-negotiable for whether I stick around here. If hatred becomes the norm here, I'll have to find somewhere else again.

Me too. Its a very nice change though. I like having a bit of personality on a site like this. I know reddit was all about being anonymous and stuff but this isn't reddit, and I like profile pictures :D

While I have no idea what the Snapzu team plans to do with it, there are definitely other benefits to an invite-based system. Having a limited number of invites given out, with a set of invites given to other users means it takes slightly more effort to create additional accounts. Something like this helps when dealing with troll accounts or low quality users. No matter how minimal, any additional effort is bound to discourage some set of trolls. This also helps to weed out some spam, as well as make it easier to deal with hate or incitement type accounts.

Also regarding a point /u/Moderator made in another thread yesterday, it allows the userbase to grow slowly instead of being overwhelmed. This means new users will have to adapt to the culture on Snapzu rather than completely overriding it with cultures of other communities (e.g. reddit).

This means new users will have to adapt to the culture on Snapzu rather than completely overriding it with cultures of other communities (e.g. reddit).

As it should be. I definitely do not want to see the trollish,vulgar element from Reddit making it over here and trashing Snapzu, that's for sure. Anyway,I'm stunned at the influx of users in just the last couple of days.

I definitely do not want to see the trollish,vulgar element from Reddit making it over here and trashing Snapzu

That's true and i'm loving the community so far but if someone wanted to, they easily get three invites from their first account and three from each of those. So after someone got an account, it would be very easy to create multiple ones from that. I do like though how it doesnt look like it supports have multiple accounts like RES did, just giving user the ability to switch in a second.

I came from Reddit too...but boy..I do not miss Reddit at all anymore. I even use a Firefox addon called "Simple Site Blocker" to block Reddit for me, as a way to protest against Reddit and have them get less traffic.

I absolutely love Snapzu..The site is so elegant...so easy to use...it is amazing!

Wow, this is crazy, I managed to get an invite from the /r/redditalternatives subreddit! I love the way this website looks and I think I'm going to try to be more active on this then I was on reddit, this really feels like a great community from what I've seen which makes me want to participate instead of lurking.

WOW! You know, I could never have expected this kind of user influx to happen. This is very exciting as I would love to see snapzu develop futher and I am excited to be a part of it. Thank you team snapzu for all your hard work.